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27 Cards in this Set
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FDR |
United States, president was elected for four terns, died before end of fourth term |
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harry s Truman |
United States, vice president made the decision to drop the Hiroshima bomb |
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Winston Churchill |
great Britain, prime minister saw Hitler evil for what it was from the beginning |
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Joseph Stalin |
Russia, leader responsible for 10 million Ukrainian deaths, was very into communism, had good military |
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Charles DeGaulle |
France, president fled France in fear of life,had a very bad military, got prisoners if war out of Germany |
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Chiang Kai Shek |
China, president not great president, us tried to covert to democracy |
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Hitler |
Germany, chancellor leader of nazi party, wanted Jews dead |
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Benito Mussolini |
Italy, prime minister dictator, made Italy fascist country |
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Hideki Tojo |
Japan, general of Imperial Japanese army Helped execute commands of emperor hirohito |
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Eisenhower |
Supreme alleged commander of all forces in Europe except Russia |
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Gestapo |
German state secret police, took away those who disobeyed Hitler |
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MacArthur |
commander of American Pacific forces |
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Mein Kampf |
Hitler book written in 1924 while in prison- detailed plan for world domination |
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luftwaffe |
German airforce |
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Anti semitism |
specific discrimination against the Jewish population |
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Patton |
a senior officer who commanded the first United States army group/ the ghost army |
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SS |
Hitler private army and bodyguards, greatly feared, operated death camps |
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blitzkrieg |
lighting war- concentration of offensive weapons such as tanks along a narrow front |
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panzerwagons |
an armored military cat that is lightweight and good for battlefield tasks and armed escort |
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Axis Powers |
America Greta Britain France Russia China |
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Axis Powers |
Germany Japan Italy |
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us entrance to war |
December 7th 1941 after pearl Harbor, declared war on Japan which causes allies powers to declare war on us |
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Us entrance to European war |
a invaded Italy via North Africa, and later d day in France |
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d day |
an amphibious assault on German occupied France intended to serve as a springboard towards retaking France |
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Kristallnacht |
9-10 November 1938 German civilians and nazi party attacked Jewish owned shops and banks in order to intimidate Jews |
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American treatment of Japanese |
put Japanese in internment camps out of fear, often along the west coast |
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Hitlers last days |
got married to his assistant, Eva Braun for less than 40 hours. Both killed themselves on April 30th 1945, eva via cyanide, Hitler via gunshot to head |
